Amidst the flood of sequels that made up a bulk of Microsoft’s
E3 2012 press conference, a
heavy emphasis was placed on turning your regular old television into a
fancy new “smart” TV. Through the use of Microsoft’s new SmartGlass
technology, you’ll be able to share information between your phone,
tablet, PC, television and Xbox 360. Our news guru Chris Pereira wrote
up a piece wondering if this may be Microsoft’s
opening salvo over the head of the Wii U,
but I have a slightly different question regarding SmartGlass
altogether.
My question is: why?
I hate to be the one who sounds
like a cynical curmudgeon, but how does this concept of drowning in
technology appeal to anyone? Are we becoming such an unfocused people
that the very idea of absorbing one thing at a time seems unfathomable?
Microsoft’s horrifying prospect of living in a world where we are
plugged in to all forms of technology without a moment’s rest is
something that writer/director David Cronenberg has used as the
thematic backbone of many of his movies, most notably in his 1983
classic Videodrome.
He made his mark on the film industry by creating a specific kind of
technological body horror that looked ahead to a possible nightmarish
future that the world was heading towards.
